Mojo - The Music Magazine

If you turned left, Gruff Rhys was deep in chat with The Zombies. Look right and there were the Manic Street Preachers, pledging fealty to Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan. Cast your eye wherever and you'd witness members of Mott The Hoople, cock-a-hoop that they were still with us, and a multitude of admirers queuing to share their Mott memories (or was that just Joe Elliott?). There were even those enthusiastic neo-goth puppies White Lies... Hang on, how did they get in?

The keynote of any MOJO Honours List Ceremony is the vibe of generational torch passing, and 2009's vintage was no exception, with exchange of love between Fleet Foxes and crystal-voiced folk maven Judy Collins rivalled by the mutual inspiration-a-thon that was Blur's summit with The Specials. Blur were so excited that they left their Award behind. In fact, if they want it back they need only email MOJO's Senior Editor - it's still sitting on his desk at the MOJO office.

Yet even this 24-carat cavalcade of legends - swollen to celebrity tumescence by the likes of Johnny Marr, Billy Gibbons, Chris Blackwell, Corinne Bailey Rae (pictured), Joe Brown et al - were quite impressed to see one Yoko Ono in attendance.

"MOJO fans, if you're listening to me, please keep on supporting MOJO," she beamed, generously, "because there's not another magazine like this in the world."

Who won what in 2009...

2009 Honours List Gallery...

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:54 PM GMT 23/03/2010